Literacy and Essential Skills

What do literacy and Essential Skills have to do with each other?

The first three Essential Skills (Reading Text, Document Use and Numeracy) are basic literacy skills - the kinds of skills that are taught in adult literacy programs in Ontario. Essential Skills provide people (employers, service professionals, governments) with a common way to talk about literacy skill development for adults.

Literacy and Essential Skills programming:

is basic education for adults in the area of reading, writing and numeracy

includes basic education in speaking/listening, computer and self-management/self-direction skills

has 3 levels for each of these above areas, corresponding to the Essential Skills levels